Pali Proper Names - C -

• Cakkadaha.-The home of the Cakkaratana of a Cakkavatti. J.iv.232.
• Cakkana
• Cakka-Peyyāla
• Cakkaratana
• Cakka-Sutta/Vagga
• Cakkavāka Jātaka (No.434, 451)
• Cakkavāla
• Cakkavatti
• Cakkavattisihanāda Sutta
• Cakkavatti-Sutta
• Cakkavatti-Vagga.-The fifth chapter of the Bojjhanga Samyutta. S.v.98-102.
• Cakkhu Sutta
• Cakkhulola-Brahmadatta
• Cakkhupāla Thera
• Cālā
• Cala.-A Sinhalese chieftain, who once joined the Colas against Vijayabāhu I., (Cv.lviii.16) but who, later (Cv.vs.55; see Cv.Trs.i.207, n.3), evidently returned to him and fought bravely on his side.
• Calāka.-See Talatā.
• Cālā-Sutta.-Records Māra's visit to Cālā Therī and their conversation. S.i.132.
• Cāla-Thera
• Cālikā
• Cālikapabbata
• Cambutivāpi.-A tank built by Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.95.
• Cammakkhandhaka.-The fifth chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.i.179ff
• Cammasātaka Jātaka (No.324)
• Campā
• Campaka
• Campakā.-See Campā.
• Campakapupphiya Thera
• Campeyya, Campeyyaka.-A Nāga-king who dwelt in the river Campā. See the Campeyya Jātaka.
• Campeyya-Cariyā.-See Campeyya Jātaka.
• Campeyya-Jātaka (No.506)
• Campeyyakkhandhaka.-The ninth chapter of the Mahā Vagga of the Vinaya Pitaka. Vin.i.312ff
• Cānakka
• Cānavela.-v.l. for Tanaveli (q.v.).
• Canda
• Candā
• Canda or Candima Sutta.-Just as the moon is brighter far than the stars, so is earnestness the best of profitable conditions. S.v.44.
• Candabhāgā
• Candābha-Jātaka (No.135)
• Candabhānu
• Candābha-Thera
• Candadeva.-The third of the Andhakavenhudāsaputtā. J.iv.81.
• Candadevī. See Candā.
• Candadhara.-Name of the god Siva. Cv.lxxiv.193.
• Candagabbha.-One of the seven mountain ranges which must be crossed on the way to Gandhamādana. SNA.i.66.
• Candagiri.-A vihāra in Ceylon built by Vijayabāhu I (Cv.lx.61). Geiger (Cv.Trs.i.220, n.2) identifies it with the Sandagiri Thūpa in the Tissamahārāma.
• Candagutta
• Candaka
• Candakinnara Jātaka (No.485)
• Candakumāra
• Candakumara Cariyā.-See Candakumāra (1).
• Candakumāra Jātaka.-Another name for the Khandahāla Jātaka.
• Candamittā.-One of the two chief women disciples of Vipassī Buddha. Bu.xx.29; J.i.41.
• Candamukha.-A cave in Dhūmarakkhapabbata. Maliyamahādeva Thera once lived there. Ras.ii.126.
• Candamukha.-One of the descendants of Okkāka. Dpv.iii.42; Mhv.ii.13.
• Candamukha-Siva
• Candamukha-Tissa
• Candamukhī.-The wife of Meghavanna devaputta. Ras.ii.126.
• Candamukhī.-Wife of Metteyya Buddha in his last lay-life. Anagatavamsa, p.48.
• Candana
• Candanagāma
• Candanamālā
• Candanamāliya Thera
• Candanangalika
• Candanapāsāda.-A building in the Maricavatti-vihāra erected by Mahinda IV. It housed the Hair Relic of the Buddha in a jewelled reliquary. Cv.liv.40f.
• Candanapūjaka Thera
• Candanasāla.-See Candanamālā.
• Candana-Sutta
• Candapabbata.-See Canda (7).
• Candapadumā
• Candapadumāsirī.-See Candapadumā.
• Candappajjota. See Cannda-ppajjota.
• Candārāma.-A monastery in Candavatī, where Kondañña Buddha spent his first vassa. BuA.110.
• Candasama.-See Candūpama.
• Candasārattha-tikā.-A Commentary on the Sambandhacintā written in the fourteenth century by Saddhammañāna of Pagan. P.L.C.198.
• Candasuriya.-A friend of Mahādhanadeva. See Ariyagāla-tissa.
• Candavankavīthi.-A street in Anurādhapura. Ras.ii.123.
• Candavatī
• Candgutta.-A king of twenty kappas ago, a previous birth of Tamālapupphiya. Ap.i.197.
• Candikā.-Mother of Candikāputta. See below.
• Candikāputta Thera
• Candimā, Candimasa, Canda
• Candimasa-Sutta.-Records the visit of the devaputta Candimasa to the Buddha and the conversation that ensued. S.i.51.
• Candimā-Sutta.-Records the incident of the Buddha's request to Rāhu to free Candimā. (S.i.50)
• Candiya.-See Candakumāra.
• Candūpama.-A king of twenty-three kappas ago, a previous birth of Vannakāraka Thera. v.l. Candasama. Ap.i.220.
• Candūpama-Sutta
• Cangotakiya-Thera.-An arahant. Ninety-four kappas ago he lived near the sea, and seeing Siddhattha Buddha, gave him a bouquet of flowers. Ap.i.235.
• Cankamadāyaka Thera.-An arahant. Eighteen kappas ago he made a magnificent cloistered walk for Atthadassī Buddha. For three kappas he was king of the gods and was three times Cakka-vatti. Ap.i.99.
• Cankama-Sutta.-The five advantages of a cankama (cloister): it trains one to travel, encourages striving, it is healthy, it improves digestion and promotes concentration. A.iii.29.
• Cankī
• Cankī-Sutta
• Cankolapupphiya Thera
• Cannda
• Canndagāmani.-See Gāmanicannda.
• Canndakālī
• Canndalakappa
• Canndāla-Sutta
• Canndālatissa-mahābhaya
• Cannda-ppajjota
• Canndāsoka. The name given to Asoka, because he so cruelly killed his brothers. The name was later changed into Dhammāsoka. Mhv.v.189.
• Cannda-Sutta.-Describes the visits of the Gāmani Cannda to the Buddha. See Cannda (1).
• Canndavajji
• Canndī
• Canndīdvāra.-One of the gates erected in Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. It was brightly painted (Cv.lxxiii.161; lxxix.45). Canndī is one of the names of Durgā, Siva's wife.
• Canndorana.-A mountain in the Himālaya region. The Bodhisatta, as an elephant, once lived there looking after his mother. J.iv.90, 93.
• Cānura.-A wrestler employed by Kamsa to fight the Andhakavenhudā-saputtā. But Baladeva put a strap round him and, lifting him up, dashed his brains out on the ground. J.iv.81f.
• Cāpāla.-A Yakkha. See Cāpāla-cetiya.
• Cāpāla-cetiya
• Cāpāla-Vagga.-The first chapter of the Iddhipāda Samyutta. S.v.254-63.
• Cāpā-Therī (v.l. Chāvā)
• Cara (Sutta/Vagga)
• Carī.-Probably the name of a celestial musician, or, perhaps, of a musical instrument. VvA.94; but see note on p.372, also p.211, where Carī is omitted from the list.
• Carimālopa Sutta
• Carita-Sutta
• Cariyākathā.-The fifth chapter of the Paññāvagga of the Patisambhidā-magga. Ps.ii.225f.
• Cariyāpitaka
• Carukkatta.-A village in South India. Cv.lxxvi.127.
• Catassa-Sutta.-There are four elements - earth, water, heat, air. S.ii.169.
• Cāthamangama.-A tank constructed by Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.95.
• Cātigatikapatimāghara.-An image-house attached to the Mahāthūpa and built by Mahādāthika-Mahānāga. MT.634.
• Cattāro-Mahārājāno.-See Cātummahārājikā.
• Catubhānavāra
• Catucakka-Sutta
• Cātuddisa-Sutta.-Five qualities that make a monk a "four-regioner" - moving without let in the four quarters. A.iii.135.
• Catudvāra-Jātaka (No.439)
• Catukundika-niraya.-A description of the sufferings undergone by a child while in its mother's womb. The foetus has to lie bent in four (catukundena), hence the name. J.iii.243f.
• Cātumā.-A Sākiyan village containing a mote-hall; near it was the Amalakīvana where the Buddha once stayed and preached the Cātuma Sutta (M.i.456f.; MA.ii.660).
• Cātumāsika-Brahmadatta
• Cātumāsinī.-Occurs in the phrase Komudī Cātumāsinī, probably referring to the Cātumāsya festival which is performed in the month of Kattika, Komudī being the full-moon day of Kattika. Vin.i.55; D.i.47, etc.
• Cātuma Sutta
• Catumatta-Jātaka (No.187)
• Cātumeyyakā.-The inhabitants of Cātumā. M.i.457.
• Cātummahārājikā
• Catunikāyika-Bhandika Thera.-Evidently a well-known commentator. He is quoted as an authority in the Samyutta Commentary. SA.i.17.
• Catunikāyika-Tissa
• Catupaccayasantosabhāvanārāma-Mahā-ariyavamsa.-See Mahāariyavamsa Sutta.
• Catuparivatta 1. -Another name for the Bahudhātuka Sutta. M.iii.67.
• Catuparivatta 2.-One of the suttas not included in the Three Recensions (Sp.iv.742).
• Catuposathika-Jātaka
• Catuposathika-khanda
• Caturakkha
• Caturangabala.-An officer of state of Jambudīpa; an author. Gv.67.
• Caturārakkhā.-The Gandhavamsa (pp.65, 75) mentions a commentary written on this work.
• Caturitthi-Vimāna.-See Sumanā (13).
• Catusāmanera-Vatthu
• Catussālā
• Cāvala.-A mountain near Himavā. Ap.i.279; ii.451.
• Cayantī-vāpi.-A tank in Ceylon built by Vasabha. v.l. Mayantī. Mhv.xxxv.94.
• Cecca.-A shortened form of Cetiya. J.v.267, 273.
• Celakanthī.-A mare belonging to Candappajjota. She could travel one hundred leagues in a day and was one of his five rapid conveyances. DhA.i.196.
• Cela-Sutta 1.-See Ukkācela Sutta.
• Cela-Sutta 2.-When one's turban or head is ablaze, one must put forth special effort to extinguish the fire; needless to say, such effort is also necessary for the comprehension of the four Noble Truths. S.v.440.
• Cellāra.-A village in South India. Cv.1xxvi.262.
• Ceta
• Cetā 1.-Daughter-in-law of Vidhura and Anujjā. J.vi.290.
• Cetā 2.-The people of Cetiya. J.i.256; vi.516.
• Cetaka-Thera
• Cetanā-Sutta
• Cetaputtā.-The name of a tribe given in a nominal list; probably the inhabitants of Ceta. Ap.ii.359.
• Cetāvigāma.-A village in Ceylon. When Mattābhaya was ordained under Mahinda he was followed by five hundred youths from this village (Mhv.xvii.59). The village was to the south of Anurādhapura. MT.384.
• Ceti, Cetiya
• Cetiyā
• Cetiyadamila.-The chief warrior of Elāra, killed by Velusumana. Ras.ii.62; but see Velusumana.
• Cetiyagiri.-See Cetiyapabbata, also Vedisagiri.
• Cetiya-Jātaka (No.422)
• Cetiyakapabbata.-Probably a v.l. for Vedisagiri. See Ras.i.99.
• Cetiyambatthala.-See Ambatthala.
• Cetiyapabbata
• Cetiya-Sutta
• Cetiyavāda
• Cetiyavamsatthakathā.-One of the sources mentioned in the Mahāvamsa-Tīkā (p.548). It probably dealt with the building of the cetiyas in Ceylon, chiefly the Mahā Thūpa.
• Cetokhila-Sutta
• Cetoparicca-Sutta.-Anuruddha, questioned by some monks at Jetavana, tells them that by cultivating the four Satipatthāna he was able to read and know the minds of beings, of other persons. S.v.304.
• Cetovimuttiphala-Sutta
• Chabbaggiyā
• Chabbisodhana-Sutta.-On the six-fold scrutiny by which a monk can know whether he is justified in saying that for him rebirth is no more, that his heart has been absolutely delivered from the āsavas. M.iii.29-37.
• Chabbyāputtā.-A royal clan of Nāgas. Vin.ii.110; J.ii.145; A.ii.72.
• Cha-Chakkha Sutta
• Chaddanta
• Chaddanta-Jātaka (No.514)
• Chagāma, Chaggāma.- A village in Rohana. Ras.ii.34; Cv.lviii.45; lxxv.3.
• Chakesadhātuvamsa.-See Appendix.
• Chakkhattiyakhanda
• Chalabhijātiya Sutta
• Chalanga
• Chalangakumāra
• Chalindriya-Vagga.-The third chapter of the Indriya Samyutta. S.v.203ff
• Challūra.-A tank built by King Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.47.
• Chambhī
• Chanda, Chandaka, Chandāgārika.-See Chann°.
• Chandena Sutta.-A group of eighteen suttas on abandoning lust and desire for that which is impermanent, ill and without self (S.iv.148-51).
• Chandosāratthavikāsinī (or Vuttodayapañcikā).-A Commentary on the Vuttodaya, written by Saddhammañāna in the fourteenth century. Bode, op. cit., 26.
• Channa
• Channā.-A nun, mentioned as being specially proficient in the Vinaya. v.l. Chandā. (Dpv.xviii.29)
• Channāgarikā.-A secondary division of the Vajjiputtakas. Mhv.v.7; Dpv.v.46; Mbv.97.
• Channapatha-pañha
• Channa-Sutta
• Channa-Vagga.-The Ninth chapter of the Salāyatana Samyutta. S.iv.53-70.
• Channovāda-Sutta.-Records the same incidents as Channa Sutta (3). M.iii.263ff.
• Chapāna-Sutta
• Chapata.-See Saddhammajotipāla.
• Chaphassāyatanika-Sutta.-A group of three suttas concerning the sixfold sphere of contact. S.iv.43f.
• Chappaccayadīpanī.-A work on Pāli prosody by Suddhammañāna. Bode, op. cit., 26.
• Chātapabbata
• Chatta
• Chattadāyaka-Thera
• Chattādhichattiya.-See Adhichattiya.
• Chattaggāhaka-vāpī.-A tank built by a parasol-bearer (chattaggāhaka), the husband of Sanghā (Cv.xxxviii.3).
• Chattaguhinda.-The Pāli name of Kyansitthā, son of Anorata, king of Pagan. (Sās.75; Bode, op. cit.15, n.5).
• Chattapāni
• Chattapāsāda.-A building in Anurādhapura, probably attached to the king's palace. There King Bhātika distributed gifts to the monks (Mhv.xxxiv.65; MT.663). Sirināga repaired the building. Mhv.xxxvi.26.
• Chattavaddhi.-The spot in Mahāmeghavana where Moggallāna I presented his parasol to the monks as a mark of homage. A parivena called by the same name was built there. Mhv.xxxix.32.
• Chattavimāna.-See Chatta (3).
• Chattunnatavāpi.-A tank in Ceylon, repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxviii.43.
• Chāva.-See Upaka Ajivaka.
• Chavaka-Jātaka (No.309)
• Chavālāta-Sutta
• Chavasīsa.-A charm which gave the power of saying where a dead person was born, by tapping on his skull with one's finger-nail, even three years after death. Vangīsa knew the charm. ThagA.ii.192; AA.i.150, cp. Migasira.
• Chavi-Sutta.-Dire are gains, favours and flattery; they cut the skin, the flesh, right down to the marrow. S.ii.237.
• Cheta-Sutta.-See Kassapagotta Sutta.
• Chetvā-Sutta.-One must destroy anger in order to be happy (S.i.41). v.l. Jhatvā. The sutta is repeated under the same name in S.i.237. It appears again under the names of Māgha (S.i.46) and Dhānañjānī (S.i.160).
• Chetvā-Vagga.-The eighth chapter of the Devatā Samyutta (S.i.41ff). v.l. Jhatvā. On the title of the sutta see KS.i.58, n.1.
• Chiggala-Sutta
• Chindī-Sutta.-Devadatta brought schism into the Order because his heart was possessed by gains, flattery, etc. (S.ii.239).